The federal complaint says Lutchman is a self-professed convert to Islam who claimed to receive direction from an overseas ISIS member and planned to carry out an attack at a bar-restaurant in the Rochester area on Thursday.
The FBI said in a criminal complaint that Lutchman and an accomplice working for the FBI bought knives and a machete for the attack.
“New years is here soon. Do operations and kill some kuffar,” the overseas ISIS contact instructed, according to court records.
I’m sure they don’t want to release the name of the restaurant because it would basically guarantee the place would stay empty tonight, but that’s a really important piece of information for the public to know.
Either a dumb knee jerk reaction or there is more intel out there they aren’t telling us about.
The guy they arrested today was hardly the criminal mastermind type…
He also discussed targeting sneaking a bomb into a bar or club and kidnapping people and kill them. He ultimately settled on a New Year’s Eve plot involving possibly kidnapping a victim and killing them using knives and a machete.
On the evening of December 29, Lutchman met an informant at a Walmart in Rochester to purchase supplies for the operation including 2 black ski masks, zip ties, 2 knives, a machete, duct tape, ammonia and latex gloves.
Lutchman apparently had very little in the way of money and needed the informant to pay $40 for those items.
Sure doesn’t sound like this was the kind of guy to have a coordinated attack. I haven’t been ISIL trained or anything but I’m pretty sure buying all that shit at one store is probably on their list of “don’t do this” things.